Liza Balkan
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| Occupation(s) | Actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer |
Liza Balkan is a Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer.[1]
Career
[edit]She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in Still the Night (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour).[1] She is also known as the voice actress for Amy Mizuno from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon.[2]
On the silver screen, she had a role in Asghar Massombagi's Khaled (2001) and appeared in Atom Egoyan's critically acclaimed drama Remember (2015), portraying the daughter-in-law of Christopher Plummer's protagonist in the latter.
Balkan teaches at the University of Windsor, located in Windsor, Ontario.[1]
- Directing credits
- Opera Brief's 6 & 7 (Tapestry New Opera Works)
- Skylight and Trying (Persephone Theatre)
- Half an Hour (Shaw Festival Director's Project)
- Bunnicula (Theatre Athena)
- Orchids (Marquis Ent.)
- Good Woman of Setzuan
- Enemies (premiere, Ryerson Theatre School )
- Pavlov's Brother (Toronto Fringe Festival)
- Performances
- Sylvia (Belfry Theatre)
- It's All True (Great Canadian Theatre Company)
- The Winter's Tale (National Arts Centre)
- The Stronger Variations (Theatre Rusticle/Harbourfront)
- Golda's Balcony (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre)
- West Side Story (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.)
Voice roles
- Sailor Moon (Sailor Mercury/Amy Mizuno)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Liza Balkan". University of Windsor. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
- ^ Hal Erickson, Hal (July 2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003 (via Google Books). McFarland & Co. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-7864-2256-2. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
External links
[edit]- Liza Balkan at IMDb
- Official Web site: www.lizabalkan.com
- Liza Balkan on Twitter
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